What has happened, Tac, is that we have had 30 years of allowing thr free markets to police themselves and all it has done is create a bunch of bad cops and unprecedented corporate corruption and a massive redistribution of income away from the working class to the monied class... Same things that we are seeing today in Egypt could easily happen here in the US... There is always a breaking point...

BTW, also during the last 30 years of conservative rule (not governance) the US has dropped in every good category and jumped up in the bad ones... This is what the right has done... Not the left... The left hardly gets any microphone time... The media is owned by the corporate right and it pushes it's story at US 24/7...

Heck with economic control... Lets just level the playing field... Bill has spoken about "Fairness Doctrine" in the media... We haven't seen that since the 70s... That's all these Rabbis are saying... We do need balance and fairness... It's too bad that tyhe left has to scrape and scrounge and pool their money to be able to buy one friggin' ad in a newspaper in order to get a point across when the right has unlimited access...

Bring back the Fairness Doctrine and I think things will work out because then people will have more information before forming opinions and making choices...

B~